Comedy is an elusive and fast-moving target to define. General public consensus is that humor comes from the unexpected, but this theory is still flawed and doesn't explain everything. One thing's for sure: comedy is funny.
Comedy, as something primarily happy (except when it's not), is directly opposed to Tragedy, and its most modern definition contrasts against yet can overlap with Drama or possibly Horror. And has been since the day it was conceived as a term, albeit not like we know today; comedy was something that either had a happy ending or was written in the common tongue, i.e. Dante's The Divine Comedy, Tragedy was something that had a sad ending. Propelled off of Rule of Funny, comedy infects all art forms. Its hobbies include satires, parodies, pastiches, playing for laughs, snarking, breathless ranting, Irony, and hiding snickerdoodles in its knickerbockers.
A list of UK comedy writer jargon, which includes many familiar tropes, can be found here.
Indexes:
- Comedy Tropes
- Comic Actors
- Comic Literature
- Comedy Music
- Comedy Series
- Comedy Video Games
- Gag-per-Day Webcomics
- Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy
Comedy of Note:
- Crayon Shin-chan
- Dropkick on My Devil
- The Geek Ex-Hitman
- Grand Blue
- Leave it to PET!
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
- Deadpool
- Gaston Lagaffe
- Inferior Five
- Lobo
- Le Petit Spirou
- Sam & Max: Freelance Police
- Sami The Samurai Squirrel
- Titeuf
Comic Strips
Films — Live-Action
- The 7th Company
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- 8-Bit Christmas
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- Ace of Aces
- Ace Ventura
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
- Adam's Rib
- The Adventures of Gerard
- The Adventures of Philibert, Captain Virgin
- Airplane!
- Aline (2021)
- An American Pickle
- Analyze This
- Animal House
- Asterix
- Atlantic Wall
- Avanti!
- Les Baba Cool
- Back to the Future
- Barbie (2023)
- Bean
- The Big Store
- Blackbeard's Ghost
- Blazing Saddles
- The Blues Brothers
- The Boat That Rocked
- Borat
- The Brain (1969)
- Brain Donors
- Bros
- Caddyshack
- The Cannonball Run
- Casino Royale (1967)
- La Cité de la peur
- City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume
- Clockwise
- Le Comiche
- Cool Runnings
- Crazy People
- Daaaaaalí!
- Deadpool (2016)
- Delusions of Grandeur
- The Dinner Game
- Dr. Strangelove
- Drive-Away Dolls
- Dumb and Dumber
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- Easy A
- Encino Man
- The Experts
- The Family Jewels
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- French Fried Vacation
- French Twist
- Friday
- From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
- Gendarme Series
- Get Him to the Greek
- Ghostbusters
- Go West (1940)
- Good Satan
- La Gran Aventura De Mortadelo Y Filemon
- Gramps Is in the Resistance
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- La Grande Vadrouille
- The Great Dictator
- The Great Race
- Grown Ups
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Hangover
- Hitch
- Home Alone
- Housewarming
- Hundreds of Beavers
- Inspector Blunder
- Jabberwocky
- Jo
- Johnny English
- Kaamelott: Premier Volet
- Last Action Hero
- Laurel and Hardy
- Logan Lucky
- Love and Death
- The Love Bug
- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
- Manhattan
- Everything from the Marx Brothers:
- The Mask
- Miranda (1948)
- Miss Congeniality
- The Money Pit
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
- Mr. Blake at Your Service!
- Mr. Deeds
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- My Führer
- The Naked Gun
- Neighbors (2014)
- No Hard Feelings
- OSS 117 (since 2006)
- The Out-Laws
- The Party
- The Pink Panther
- please don't destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
- Poltergay
- Price of Parenting
- The Producers
- The Proposal
- RRRrrr!!!
- Santa Claus Is a Stinker
- Sleeper
- Smosh: The Movie
- Snowball Express
- Spring Breakdown
- Spy
- Strays (2023)
- The Sucker
- The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
- Taxi
- That Darn Cat!
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
- The Three Brothers
- The Three Magi
- Les Tontons flingueurs
- Tropic Thunder
- The Ugly Dachshund
- Unfrosted
- Van Wilder
- Les Visiteurs
- Weird Science
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- What's Up, Tiger Lily?
- What Women Want
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan
- Young Frankenstein
- You're Cordially Invited
- Zelig
- The Zombie Apocalypse in Apartment 14F
- Zombieland
Music
Radio
Theatre
- Addictive Science
- Caribbean Blue
- The Eye of Ramalach
- iMew
- Lies, Sisters and Wives
- Rascals
- Toothpaste For Dinner
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Family Guy
- King of the Hill
- Looney Tunes
- The Simpsons
- South Park
- SpongeBob SquarePants